Eileen Pollack is the author of the novels The Professor of Immortality, The Bible of Dirty Jokes, A Perfect Life, and Breaking and Entering, named a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection, as well as two award-winning story collections, The Rabbi in the Attic and In the Mouth. Eileen’s work of creative nonfiction Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull was made into a movie starring Jessica Chastain. Her investigative memoir The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club was published in 2015; a long excerpt appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine and went viral.
Her work has been selected for Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, and Best American Travel Writing. A collection of her essays, Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman, was published in 2022. A former director of the MFA Program at the University of Michigan, she now lives and writes in Boston.
